A man has gotten himself in more trouble than he can handle after he was found out to have committed a grievous crime online.
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David Clare, an English man in his late 20s has been dragged to court.
The man was charged to court after he was found out to have posed
as a teenage boy online to get a 15-year-old girl to send him n*ked
pictures of herself.
According to Shropshire Star, David Clare, who is disabled and has
learning difficulties, befriended the girl from Northamptonshire,
England, on social media site Kik by posing as a 14-year-old boy.
She told teachers at her school after becoming concerned he was not
who he said he was when he gave her two different dates of birth,
Telford Magistrates Court was told.
Clare, of Woodcroft in Woodside, Telford, admitted three charges of
inciting a 15-year-old girl to engage in sexual activity between August
and December 2014 at a previous court hearing. He was sentenced by
magistrates to a 12-month community order to include a 60-day
rehabilitation requirement.
The 29-year-old was also fined £100 and ordered to pay £185 costs and an £85 victim surcharge.
Mrs Abigail Hall, prosecuting, said: “The victim was aged 15 at
the time of the offence. The defendant was aged 27 at the time of the
offences. Police got in touch with the victim, who provided an interview
after she had expressed concerns to teachers a male she had been
communicating with was not who he said he was. She believed initially
she had been talking to a 14-year-old male called David Clarke.
“The defendant had asked her if she wanted to have phone s*x,
and asked her to send intimate photographs of herself. They engaged in
phone sex two to four times a week.”
Mrs Hall said Clare was arrested after police traced the mobile
phone to him. Concerns had also been raised by the mother of another
girl in August 2014 about Clare, the court was told.
The prosecutor said the defendant admitted to having seven different fake Facebook accounts.
Mr Steven Meredith, for Clare, said: “He doesn’t feel like he
can form natural relationships because of the way he looks. It’s a very
sad situation. He had a very traumatic and difficult childhood and was
bullied at school because of his disability.”
He told how Clare had spent the last 10 years locked away in his
bedroom at his parents’ house on the internet and suffered from
depression.